Sunni Arabs are ready to end their boycott of talks to form a new government if rival Shiites return mosques seized in last week’s sectarian attacks and meet other unspecified demands, a Sunni official said today.

A car bomb blast targeting a US military patrol killed six Iraqi civilians and wounded 11 others today.

BOMBING and shooting attacks west of Baghdad killed six US troops and a suicide car bomber slammed into a truck carrying Iraqi policemen near the airport yesterday, killing at least eight and wounding 25 - the latest wave of violence aimed at derailing Iraq’s advancing political process.

A suicide car bomber today slammed into a truck that was carrying policemen along the main road connecting central Baghdad with its airport, killing at least eight officers and injuring at least 25.